Latest Fact-Checks By Janie Har

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Promote Oregon Leadership PAC (Oregon House Republicans)
Promote Oregon Leadership PAC (Oregon House Republicans)
stated on October 1, 2012 in campaign mailer:
Ben Unger supported a 15 percent property tax increase on Oregon seniors.
Half-True
By Janie Har • October 3, 2012
Our Portland, Our Schools
Our Portland, Our Schools
stated on September 20, 2012 in campaign material:
Says it will cost $220 per square foot in hard construction costs to rebuild Portland Public high schools.
Half-True
By Janie Har • September 29, 2012
Yes on 82 and 83 campaign
Yes on 82 and 83 campaign
stated on September 20, 2012 in a campaign ad:
Says Measures 82 and 83 authorize just one more casino.  
Half-True
By Janie Har • September 27, 2012
Yes on 79
Yes on 79
stated on August 20, 2012 in a state voters' pamphlet argument:
Says "One of the state’s largest governments made charging this tax one of their top priorities just this year."
Pants on Fire!
By Janie Har • September 25, 2012
It's Still a Bad Idea
It's Still a Bad Idea
stated on September 13, 2012 in a campaign ad:
"Their New York casino deal was called ‘rigged’ and ‘corrupt.’" 
Mostly True
By Janie Har • September 21, 2012
Education Action Group
Education Action Group
stated on September 16, 2012 in an online post:
"Portland Schools spend $500K to deem PB&J sandwiches racist."
Pants on Fire!
By Janie Har • September 18, 2012
Yes on 84
Yes on 84
stated on September 7, 2012 in campaign material:
The reason 29 states no longer have a death tax "is that the tax damaged their economic competitiveness."
False
By Janie Har • September 14, 2012
Bill Kennemer
Bill Kennemer
stated on September 11, 2012 in a news story:
"We just don't want to get to be like Louisiana, where you have drive-up daiquiri shops."
True
By Janie Har • September 13, 2012
It's Still a Bad Idea
It's Still a Bad Idea
stated on September 10, 2012 in a campaign press event:
"This would be the largest casino in the United States."
Pants on Fire!
By Janie Har • September 11, 2012
Clackamas County Commission
Clackamas County Commission
stated on August 23, 2012 in a press release:
Clackamas County Commissioners "approved a re-negotiated agreement to lower the county’s contribution to TriMet’s Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project to $19.9 million from $25 million."
False
By Janie Har • August 30, 2012
Peter DeFazio
Peter DeFazio
stated on July 30, 2012 in :
Art Robinson says "Social Security should be ended through attrition."
Mostly True
By Janie Har • August 10, 2012
Salmon for All
Salmon for All
stated on August 1, 2012 in a guest column:
"This ban will only apply to Oregon commercial fishermen. Washington commercial fishermen would still be allowed to use gillnets on the Columbia River."
Half-True
By Janie Har • August 9, 2012
TriMet
TriMet
stated on July 7, 2012 in a newspaper ad:
"Without Westside MAX, we’d need to add 2.9 lanes to the Sunset Highway."
Mostly False
By Janie Har • August 6, 2012
Steve Doell
Steve Doell
stated on July 19, 2012 in a press release:
Says "About 7 in 10 of Oregon’s inmates are in prison for violent crimes and serious sex offenses."
True
By Janie Har • August 3, 2012
Cascade Policy Institute
Cascade Policy Institute
stated on July 5, 2012 in a website:
Unemployment among Oregon high school graduates aged 18 to 20 increased more than 200 percent from 2008 to 2011, while the U.S. average increased only 30 percent.
Half-True
By Janie Har • July 19, 2012
TriMet
TriMet
stated on July 2, 2012 in a website:
The Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Project has created 1,525 direct jobs as of June 11, 2012.
Half-True
By Janie Har • July 16, 2012
Multnomah County
Multnomah County
stated on July 10, 2012 in a public health campaign:
Says "Your kid just ate 16 packs of sugar."
True
By Janie Har • July 11, 2012
Clackamas County Democrats
Clackamas County Democrats
stated on June 22, 2012 in a campaign press release:
Says Clackamas County Measure 3-401 "will hurt our county, cripple economic growth, and increase our taxes with excessive special elections." 
False
By Janie Har • July 5, 2012
Don McIntire
Don McIntire
stated on June 26, 2012 in a radio show:
"We’re spending $12,000 bucks a kid a year in the school system."
True
By Janie Har • July 3, 2012
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on June 26, 2012 in in a press statement:
Says "TriMet's own analysis shows that YouthPass does not actually add to the transit agency's costs."
Mostly True
By Janie Har • June 27, 2012
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